Finger-food: The aye-aye’s unique feeding technique, known as percussive foraging, has resulted in some extreme adaptations. The extra processing power required to coordinate this has resulted in an enlarged brain and cranial cavity, hence the aye-aye’s eyes being more widely spaced
Gerald Durrell, who tirelessly championed Madagascar’s wildlife, once described the island as “being shaped like a badly made omelette flying off the east coast of Africa, but containing — as a properly made omelette should — a wealth of good things inside it”. Yet stuffy a map and it would be all too easy to dismiss Madagascar as nothing more than an in significant chip off the old Africa block, and to suppose it contained little more than a watered-down selection of species from the mainland… Think again.
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